What Size is you coop & run and how many hen do you house in there??

[karlamaria]

our coop is 6x6x8 main and 3x6x4 attached brooder and the run is 16x22 and we have 9 year old hens and 7 chicks coming up.  Once the chicks are ready to joint the big girls we'll add another run that will be another 10x10.  Our girls are happy,healthy and very funny

that's a lot of chickens in that small of a coop !

 

[karlamaria]

Here is mine, 10x8 coop and 9 feet tall
. 12x17 pen... 9 birds, I believe in 4 feet per bird, mine have a lot more then that, but then again there is plenty of room to add more chickens if need be. A few are cockrels that will be going soon so my broody can lay on more eggs if she wishs and have a few more chicks.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/663186/coop-reconstruction-bigger-and-better

I do not believe in stuffing birds in a small coop, build it bigger now if you plan on having a set number of birds and plan on adding more later.

 

[samouw]

My big coop was 8x5 with a 12x12 run. At one point, I had 22 chicks in there, which got culled down to about 18 as adults. They free-ranged all winter, so space wasn't an issue (there's 12' of roost space in the coop, too), but this spring I cut back a lot. Right now, I have 8 hens and 1 roo in there and that seems about perfect.

 

[Jakoda]

just finished my run, the chicken inside area is 12 x 4, and of course in hindsight I should have gone bigger since I have a huge shed..Anyhow the outside run is 12 x 20 , I have 9 chickies

sorrry for the blur of the wire, it's my lack of photography skills it is 1/2 inch mesh,,I am snake paranoid, not that we have many, so I went crazy with fencing it in,,I think I'll call it Fort Pox

 

[Wrigley62]

Square feet

 

[jrsckn]

My coop is 64 sqft and my run is 384 sqft including the coop so the run would be 320 without the coop. I currently have 17 living out there and 10 more in the brooder. I have 3 confirmed cockerels and possibly 2 more so I'm looking at 22-24 hens and I haven't decided on keeping any roosters or culling any hens yet. So at 25 birds, there would be 2.5 sqft in the coop and 12.8 sqft in the run per bird.

 

[thecoopbuilder]

I have also searched this on google and most answers are 2 square feet minimum per hen. I hear that it also depends on the amount of perches you have. When I built my first coop, one o my customers said there has to be perches or or they are not going to be as excited to be in the coop. That is from my own experience. This is one of my coops that house 4 chickens, but people tell me it can house 6 chickens because of the mount of perches I put in it.
Good Luck

 

[chickenbythesea]

that's a lot of chickens in that small of a coop !

you think that in total, 9x9x8 which equals 648 square feet for 15 birds which also equals 43.2 sq feet per bird is small? From what I see on here, it's rather large. Plus, that is also 452 sq feet of run per bird... which gives them 30 sq feet per bird in the run. Where do you think I should enlarge? front
side
extension. It hasn't been stained yet.. we live on the ocean and staining is a challenge with the weather but it's on the to do list.

 

[HEChicken]

you think that in total, 9x9x8 which equals 648 square feet for 15 birds which also equals 43.2 sq feet per bird is small? From what I see on here, it's rather large. Plus, that is also 452 sq feet of run per bird... which gives them 30 sq feet per bird in the run. Where do you think I should enlarge?front
side extension. It hasn't been stained yet.. we live on the ocean and staining is a challenge with the weather but it's on the to do list.

9x9x8 is NOT 648 square feet!

To get square feet, you take the length & multiply by the width. To get cubic feet you would also multiply by the height. So assuming you are saying your coop is 9 feet long, by 9 feet wide by 8 feet high, your coop is 81 square feet, and 648 cubic feet (but we don't count cubic feet when figuring the space needed for chickens because they use very little of the vertical height overall).

 

[7L Farm]

I have three chicken coops two of the three are three sided so there's only one door to get in & out of their coop. My chickens have about 10 ft per bird. Plus they free range atleast 8 hours everyday. I do however live on a farm so space is not an issue. I like giving birds alot of space.Here's my newest coop its around 400 sq Ft & houses 38 month old chickens. They will stay in their coop till they are about equal in size to the others.